May Plenary
Meeting: The draft agenda is out. We have a pre-briefing scheduled with
Dr. Jeffrey on Wednesday, and EAC pre-briefing on Thursday of next week.
We are trying to schedule a teleconference with the TGDC subcommittee
chairs and co-chairs before the meeting - if you have any issues please
let your chair and co-chair know.

EMC
Requirements (Alan Goldfine):

The
paper as discussed at the last CRT teleconference has been submitted to
the editors for formatting and incorporation into VVSG draft. There was
some tweaking to the informative language but nothing significant.

Reliability
and Accuracy Benchmarks (David Flater):

Two
small points: 1) We clarified the issue of how the device class control
tabulator only listed benchmarks for non-user serviceable failures. The
amendment made was under failure type, instead of non-user serviceable,
it was changed to "all" with a footnote saying that apart from
misfeeds (and jams) which are handled by a separate benchmark, TGDC experience
is that central tabulator failures are never user serviceable. 2) The
second issue was in regards to the misfeed rate. The benchmark was set
on a 99% curve, meaning the benchmark was set so that a conforming device
should leave no more than 1% chance of blowing the benchmark in the example
election for the volume positive. In case of misfeeds, the benchmark was
set to the rate quoted, 1 in 500.

Draft
VVSG (Allan Eustis for John Wack):

The
VVSG draft will go up on the web Friday and will be substantially the
version that is printed for discussion at the May 21-22 plenary meeting.
It is a near final draft, however some security sections are still preliminary.
The plenary will focus mainly on issues of major concerns. On day 2, there
will be discussion of the next steps and future TGDC meetings. We will
also discuss the VVSG final review process. We are completing this document
under the laws established by HAVA.

TGDC
Logistics (Allan Eustis):

The
web page is up as well with logistic information and draft agenda. TGDC
members will receive a CD will all the information on it. Final VVSG will
go on the web on Friday and also burned to CD sent to TGDC.

Other:

Alan
Goldfine: Next CRT meeting will be next Thursday, May 17. We will discuss
plenary meeting presentations which will be sent out next week. We will
also schedule future subcommittee meetings - still useful to have weekly
meetings.

Allan
Eustis: Steve Berger has resigned from the TGDC. IEEE is in the process
of providing a new appointment. Seat currently vacant.

Allan
Eustis: All subcommittees will probably continue with weekly meetings
after plenary.

David
Flater: There was significant discussion about the interoperability
section of the VVSG at the STS meeting this week. Changes resulted to
the section to make the language more precise when discussing interoperability
and integratability. Please review if you are interested in changes.

Brit
Williams: IEEE is reconstituting its standards coordinating committee
and the way that they provide input to the TGDC. NIST may be interested
in joining committee.

Meeting
adjourned at 11:30 a.m.

[* Pursuant
to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the TGDC is charged with directing
NIST in performing voting systems research so that the TGDC can fulfill
its role of recommending technical standards for voting equipment to the
EAC. This teleconference discussion served the purposes of the CRT subcommittee
of the TGDC to direct NIST staff and coordinate its voting-related research
relevant to the VVSG 2007. Discussions on this telecon are preliminary,
pre-decisional and do not necessarily reflect the views of NIST or the
TGDC.]